The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

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Tomatometer 89% Audience Score 87%

Running time: 1h 50m
Genre: Documentary

Beginning during the racial turmoil of 1960s Louisiana, 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman (Cicely Tyson) grants an interview to a persistent journalist and relates the remarkable story of her life. Orphaned early, she toils on a plantation until a chance meeting with a white Union soldier named Brown changes her outlook.

Jane's emancipation marks only the beginning of an arduous and heartbreaking odyssey, framed by the horrors of slavery and the justice of the civil rights movement.

Director: John Korty
Producer(s): Rick Rosenberg, Robert Christiansen
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Michael Murphy, Richard Dysart, Michael Murphy, Joel Fluellen, Teddy Airhart, Thalmus Rasulala, Odetta, Josephine Premice, Eric Brown, Woodrow Chambliss, Barbara Chaney, Noel Cravenze, Jerry Green, James Goodman, Will Hare, David Hooks, Valeria Odell, Roy Poole
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